Advantage India, I sense - but then again, this is the World Twenty20 and as we've already seen, anything can happen! 19.3 ...

Freddy Eastwood's stunning free-kick earns Southend a shock victory over Man Utd in the Carling Cup.

An exhausted Paula Radcliffe fails to finish in Athens as Japan's Mizuki Noguchi wins the women's marathon.

Steven Gerrard has told Liverpool he wants to leave Anfield after turning down a new £100,000-a-week contract. The 25-year-old captain made his move after Liverpool rejected a £32m bid from ...

Islamic militant group Hamas has won a surprise victory in Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections. Preliminary results give Hamas 76 of the 132 seats in the chamber, with the ruling Fatah ...

A British man has been killed and about 12 other people injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Qatar. The car bomb blast occurred at the Doha Players theatre outside the capital, Doha, near a ...

Winston Churchill's pet macaw is alive and well, and still parroting the obscenities the great man taught him.

Scotland celebrate sporting glory after being crowned world champions of elephant polo in Nepal.

Tony Blair says his authority is intact despite his first Commons defeat in a vote on detention of terror suspects.

The United Nations tribunal in Arusha has convicted three former media executives of being key figures in the media campaign to incite ethnic Hutus to kill Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

Under Chad Varah's leadership, the Samaritans saved thousands of lives, but he felt the modern movement had betrayed its founding principles.

How the dramatic events of the 1999 Pakistan coup, which saw the overthrow of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, unfolded.